This week in Preschool...September 23-27, 2013

Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens.  Psalms 36:5

This week in Jesus Time we are learning about Noah, and how God was sad that the people were not loving each other and Him, so he sent a flood to destroy the whole earth, but faithful Noah and his family along with 2 of every kind of animal were safe in the ark.  After the flood, Noah thanked God, and we have the rainbow as God's promise that never again will He send a flood to destroy the whole earth.

Since we are talking about rainbows we made a class rainbow, we did a science experiment to see tissue paper bleed, then the color went up a paper towel and the two colors from each cup met in the middle.  We used cray-pas to draw rainbows, we made salty sparkles sculptures, and we made pictures that when the music stopped we had to change colors, we easel painted and used baby wipes to see how color bleeds.

We sorted animals by kind, legs, wild or tame, what they eat, where they live, and we used those animals to learn positional words, over, under, on the side, above, below, next to.  We also did beanbag activities to help with our eye-hand coordination.

Our classroom jobs help us to track from left to right when we say the calendar days of the week and count the days, when the counter counts how many friends are here we learn one to one correspondence.  Our polyspot helper counts out the correct number of spots for the children to sit on, and the weather helper checks to see what conditions we have outside.  Our day is filled with lots of learning!

This week we read:
Drip Drop!
Saved by Faith
Say What?
A B C Zooborns
Time for School Mouse
Pete the Cat The Wheels on the Bus

Starting in October we will have Show and Share Bags.  When your child brings a bag home, please help them to pick ONE thing to bring and help them with 3 clues that they can share for the other children to guess.  Please bring the bag back on the next class that they attend.

BOOK ORDERS ARE DUE ON OCTOBER 8

If you have not sent your child's binder in with the school supplies, please send it ASAP as we have lots of wonderful memories to fill it with and the children love to look through their work.

This week in Preschool....September 16-20, 2013

And God saw that it was good.  Genesis 1:10
This week we continue to learn about creation in Jesus Time.
We have been learning "The Butterfly Song", "My God is So Great", "God is So Good", and other songs.
This week we were learning how to hold our scissors and to cut a straight line.

This week we have learned about textures, hard, soft, bumpy, smooth, silky, shiny, etc., and we made a texture collage.  We also made and played with goop,(which is cornstarch and water), and added water to make different consistencies.

This week we leaned how to graph pasta by color, then we got to make a pasta picture.  We also sorted fish by color and used the tweezers to pick them up.  Tweezers help strengthen the hand muscles for using scissors.

We like to build with the blocks, it is so fun to see their creations.  Housekeeping is one of the favorite activities, we have some really great cooks in our class. We like making things on the light table, and putting together floor puzzles.  We enjoy the sand table, we use funnels and construction toys.  We also like to use our giant wipe board.

We got to easel paint. and bundle crayons to draw a picture, and use bandaids to make our own art.When we pull the stickers off the bandaid it helps us with our fine motor skills.

Since we are learning about creation, we are learning about animals and their homes, and parts of plants.
Our stories this week were:  Alphabet Mystery, Alphabet Rescue, The Falling Leaves, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, and If You Give a Cat a Cupcake.

Next week we will be learning about Noah and God's promise.  We will make a class rainbow, and each child is encouraged to bring 1 small item of each color in the rainbow and we will compile them on Monday and Tuesday to make a large rainbow to display in our room.